[feedforward]

The New York Times and Haaretz reported in the summer and autumn of last year (just prior to the current flareup), Netanyahu had sent the Mossad head to Qatar in order to convince them to send money to prop up the Hamas government in Gaza. As Netanyahu said publicly in 2012, he wanted Hamas strong and the Palestinian Authority and Fatah weak, as the PA was pursuing measures at the United Nations.

You're pointing the finger at the State of Palestine and "any Muslim country", when the real supporters of Hamas for years has been Israel and Netanyahu.

[dlubarov]

Those were ostensibly aid funds; it's not as if Qatar was sending rockets. Do you think Israel should block such aid?

[criddell]

The person you are replying to didn't imply that it was military aid. They said it was to strengthen Hamas and weaken the Palestinian Authority. I have no idea if that's true or not, but it's a different claim than you are challenging.

[edanm]

> You're pointing the finger at the State of Palestine and "any Muslim country", when the real supporters of Hamas for years has been Israel and Netanyahu.

You said true things before about Netanyahu propping up Hamas, and he certainly has a lot to answer for.

But you then went way too far in this statement. The "real supporters" or Hamas are not the Israelis or Netanyahu. They existed before Netanyahu, and they're armed and funded to massive degrees by Iran. And while Netanyahu certainly had a certain symbiosis with Hamas, and used them to weaken the PA, Hamas is its own organization; the diversion of the funds that Netanyahu helped secure them to creating the October 7th attack was certainly not anyone's desire except Hamas's own.